War crimes: Death row fugitive arrested in Kishoreganj

Law enforcers arrested convicted war criminal in Kishoreganj today, 15 months after a special tribunal handed him down death penalty for committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

Md Hafiz Uddin, 67, son of Ismat Ali of Karimganj upazila, was arrested from Itna upazila, Rezia Sultana Chaman, a prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, told The Daily Star.

Hasan Mustafa Swapan, commanding officer of Rab-14, said acting on a tip-off, Hafiz Uddin was arrested from his relative house at Borshikura village in remote haor area around 2:00pm. 

The Tribunal-1 on May 3 last year found five Kishoreganj Razakars guilty of abduction, torture and killings during the Liberation War and handed down death sentences to four of them including Hafiz and jail until death to another.

Hafiz was on the run since the tribunal issued arrest arrest warrant against him and four other in November 2014.